Read the full judgment text of CACV 109/1997 on BabelCite. This Court of Appeal judgment was delivered on 12 June 1998.
1. The plaintiff in the proceedings below, a Danish corporation ("ADS"), claims to have suffered serious financial losses as a result of its dealings with Wheelock Maritime International Limited ("WMI"), a Hong Kong company which has gone into liquidation. At the time of these dealings, WMI was a partly owned subsidiary of the first defendant Wheelock Marden & Co. Limited ("WM"). WM were general managers of WMI. WM conducted the business of WMI through the fifth defendant ("Mr. Brothers") under